William Cochran McCAUSLEN

(1796-1863)

McCAUSLEN, William
Cochran, a Representative from Ohio; born near Steubenville,
Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1796; attended the public schools;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Steubenville;
was a law partner of Secretary of War Stanton; member of the State
house of representatives in 1829, 1830, 1832, and 1833; owned and
edited a Democratic newspaper in Steubenville; elected as a
Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3,
1845); commissioned August 31, 1846, during the Mexican War as a
captain and commissary of subsistence of the Third Regiment, Ohio
Infantry; honorably discharged June 24, 1847; died in Steubenville,
Jefferson County, Ohio, March 13, 1863; interment in Union
Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present